Is there anyone on DU-3 who lived through Vietnam War Era..whose life was changed by the DraftWar?

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93. Bush was no Nixon, although his dad was Nixon's ambassador

Nixon, in comparrison to Bush, was a prince

Nixon, although he should have gotten us out of the war sooner, didnt start it. The EPA was created during his administration. Unlike the history re-writers who say only Reagan could have ended the cold war, Nixon engaged in Detante. I dont excuse Nixon for Vietnam, but the tragedy of Nixon is that by 1973, he was actually setting us on a course that could have done a lot of good. He was percieved by the soviets as a protoge of Eisenhower, whom they greatly respected and once viewed as an ally. He 'played the China card' and thawed relations with them. The cold war could have actually been starting to end in 1973 (as a kid, i had a little bit of awareness of this stuff at the time, but no where near sensed it's importance, which was totally overshadowed by watergate)
but Nixon's stumbles ushered in the Goldwater wing of the republicans, in the form of Reagan, who was in the pocket of the 'military industrial complex' that Eisenhower warned us about, who heated up the cold war, and plunged is into the beginning of today's nation debt nightmare to do it, and nearly got us blown up in 1983


From wikipedia

The most important treaties were not developed until the advent of the Nixon Administration, which came into office in 1969. The Political Consultative Committee of the Warsaw Pact sent an offer to the West, urging to hold a summit on "security and cooperation in Europe". The West agreed and talks began towards actual limits in the nuclear capabilities of the two superpowers. This ultimately led to the signing of the SALT I treaty in 1972. This treaty limited each power's nuclear arsenals, though it was quickly rendered out-of-date as a result of the development of MIRVs. In the same year that SALT I was signed, the Biological Weapons Convention and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty were also concluded. Talks on SALT II also began in 1972.
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Leonid Brezhnev (left) and Richard Nixon (right) during Brezhnev's June 1973 visit to Washington; this was a high-water mark in détente between the United States and the Soviet Union.